GILLESPIE, GEORGE, merchant; b. 1771 in Wiston, Scotland, son of Alexander Gillespie and Grizzel Paterson; m. 1818
potash. The partnership continued to expand and by 1800 counted seven partners: Parker and John Gillespie in London; John Mure* in Quebec; Gerrard
1800 major elements of this loosely tied, broad interest had formed into a copartnership that spanned the line of trade from London to the Great Lakes and included, in London, John Gillespie, who was
suggests that he was born in the northwest. After living for a time in Cobourg in the 1830s, in 1837 he joined his father’s firm, Gillespie, Moffatt and Company, which was then at the head of Montreal’s
to be avoided. He was further disappointed when Robert Gillespie* of London, England, failed to purchase a partnership in the mills for his
was to be paid 19s. weekly for the first half of the term and 20s. weekly for the balance.
In the spring of 1816 Gillespie, Gerrard
Mackenzie*, which soon merged with Parker, Gerrard, and Ogilvy. After several changes the firm became known as Gillespie, Moffatt, and Company with
, son of Thomas Rees Brock and Eleanor Thompson; m. 6 Sept. 1876 Louisa Adelaide Clara Gillespie, and they had 12
in Toronto.
James Newbigging received his early Canadian mercantile training as a clerk in the firm of Gillespie, Moffatt and Company in Montreal. In
of whom had one share. Its affairs in London were confided to Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Gillespie, Parker and Company, the Quebec business to Mure, and Michilimackinac affairs to George
in the upper Mississippi valley and at Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.). In 1794 he was in the area of present-day Wisconsin as a clerk for Ogilvy, Gillespie and Company, settling at Green Bay
Malcolm and Gillespie. Some four years later he was engaged as a journeyman merchant at Beamsville or Cobourg, possibly representing Malcolm and Gillespie. He then went on to do three years at the Hamilton
* and his brothers Henry Duff and Robert Gillespie offered to build, furnish, and equip a large sanatorium in St John’s as well as 16 smaller ones in the rural districts, which the Newfoundland
railway contractor Robert Gillespie Reid for the operation of the trans-insular railway. In 1900 Bond
.”
Beryl C. Gillespie
[Matonabbee is known primarily for his guidance and leadership of Samuel Hearne’s expedition to the
during the 1880s. In the following decade he was attracted to timber prospects in Newfoundland by Robert Gillespie
George* Gillespie, Thomas Yeoward, and Mure. Functioning through companies or offices in London, Quebec (where Mure directed business), Montreal, and Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.), the
. 1858 in Toronto, son of Thomas Willing and Jessie Gillespie; m. 1895
and timber products had begun to drop sharply. In May Robert Wood and Company assigned the barques to Gillespie, Finlay and Company, which agreed to advance £1,500 for their completion and to sell them